People on the street: British Pride
Surveys have found that British Pride is at its lowest ebb in years, with a society that values so many things so differently finding it hard to come to terms with the history of the UK.
However, between World War Two, our drive for LGBTQ+ rights, our history in arts and music and sport, there are many things that we could be really emphasising.
We hit the streets of Manchester to ask people on the street if they were proud to be British, and what makes them doubt their pride?
However, between World War Two, our drive for LGBTQ+ rights, our history in arts and music and sport, there are many things that we could be really emphasising.
We hit the streets of Manchester to ask people on the street if they were proud to be British, and what makes them doubt their pride?
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00:00Hi, I'm Theo with Manchester World today. I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people about British pride.
00:04And that's because surveys have found we're at our lowest ebb currently in terms of national pride.
00:08So we want to know if people are proud to be English, what they're proud of, and whether we should be proud,
00:12what we need to emphasise, and what we need to maybe move away from.
00:15It's more of a niche thing about British culture.
00:19So, like, the queer community and British culture.
00:23Just little things like that, rather than nationally speaking.
00:28What we should be priding ourselves on, like, to be English, should be, like,
00:32our, like, inclusiveness and acceptance and, like, just welcoming people and, like, community.
00:37That's what, to me, being English is.
00:40Manchester itself has quite a gorgeous history within the queer community.
00:44And I suppose me moving here last year, it's, like, I had something I'm very proud of.
00:48Yeah, like, for sports and music and stuff like that, I feel like England is, like, I feel proud to be English on that front.
00:55But, like, when it comes to, like, the riots and stuff like that that are happening, it makes me feel a bit embarrassed to be English.